Original Release: February 1950 Runtime: 75 Minutes Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson Something that I have ranted to friends and family about since starting this project is that it presents the potential to watch films which I may have never seen or that I have […]
Original Release: October 1949 Runtime: 68 Minutes Directed By: Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi and James Algar The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad marks two big land marks in this project’s run. For starters, it is the last of the package film era, a series of collected shorts […]
Original Release: November 1946 Runtime: 94 Minutes Directed By: Harve Foster & Wilfred Jackson I’m sure there are more peaceful and less controversial films to start a new series with but when looking through the chronological order of all Disney films, I was struck by Song of the […]
For any of you who have been following my Vault Disney series, you will know that I have just reached the end of the first ten films. Since starting this project I have been showered with surprises. I’ve been surprised at just how many of these films I’ve […]
Original Release: May 1948 Runtime: 75 Minutes Here we are, at the end of the package film era of Disney, and all I can say is, “Thank goodness.” In the 1940’s Walt Disney Studios created package films, which were collections of several short films made into one feature, […]
Original Release: September 1947 Runtime: 73 Minutes If you read my article on the previous film in this series, Make Mine Music, you’ll know that I was starting to get a little tired of the package film era. Essentially, with World War II raging in the background, taking […]
Original Release: April 1946 Runtime: 76 Minutes If it hasn’t become clear yet by my mentioning in every article, let me say it again here, World War II was not kind to Disney. Several of the studios big budget films had flopped and the small budget films had […]
Original Release: December 1944 Runtime: 72 Minutes I think it’s safe to say that The Three Caballeros is the spiritual successor to Saludos Amigos and to that point, it manages to top its predecessor in every single possible way. The film marked the second package film for Disney […]
Original Release: August 1942 Runtime: 42 Minutes Saludos Amigos, or ‘Hello Friends’ in English, is a huge departure from the previous Disney films on our list. In fact, the next few films on our list will all follow a formula which labels them as ‘package films.’ Essentially, this […]
Original Release: August 1942 Runtime: 70 minutes There is one thought that stuck with me throughout every single second of the fifth film on our Vault Re-watch, Bambi. That thought was simply: This film is gorgeous. The animation flows beautifully. The background of the forest is stunning and […]
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